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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

TECHNOLOGY-DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM AT THE

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

1995 REVIEW

Committee on Environmental Management Technologies
Board on Radioactive Waste Management

Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources
National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the
Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn
from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the Nationa Academy
of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee
responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with
regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors
according to procedures approved by the Report Review Committee consisting of
members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of
Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

The work was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Contract
No. DE-FC01-94EW54069/R. All opinions, findings, conclusions, and
recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy.

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 96-67829
International Standard Book Number 0-309-05481-8

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Cover: View of radioactive waste inside an underground storage tank at the Hanford
Site, near Richland, Washington. Photo courtesy of Westinghouse Hanford Co.

COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGIES

EDWIN E. KINTNER, Chair, GPU Nuclear Corp. (retired), Norwich, Vermont
FRANK L. PARKER*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

MELVIN W. CARTER, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (emeritus)
THOMAS A. COTTON, JK Research Associates, Inc., Arlington, Virginia
GARY A. DAVIS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

PAUL DEJONGHE, Study Centre for Nuclear Research, Mol, Belgium
GHISLAIN DE MARSILY, University of Paris, France

MARSHALL E. DRUMMOND, Eastern Washington University, Cheney
B. JOHN GARRICK, PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, California
PETER B. MYERS, Consultant, Silver Spring, Maryland
GEORGE W. PARSHALL, Consultant, Wilmington, Delaware
LYNNE M. PRESLO, Earth Tech, Berkeley, California
PAUL V. ROBERTS, Stanford University, Stanford, California
C. HERB WARD, Rice University, Houston, Texas
RAYMOND G. WYMER, Consultant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Staff

CARL A. ANDERSON, Director, BRWM
KARYANIL T. THOMAS, Study Director
THOMAS E. KIESS, Program Officer
SUSAN B. MOCKLER, Research Associate
ROBIN L. ALLEN, Senior Project Assistant
PATRICIA A. JONES, Project Assistant

*Chair, until September 1995.

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SUBCOMMITTEE ON DECONTAMINATION AND

DECOMMISSIONING

PETER B. MYERS, Chair, Consultant, Silver Spring, Maryland

PATRICIA ANN BAISDEN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore,
California

SOL BURSTEIN, Wisconsin Electric Power Milwaukee, Wisconsin (retired)

JOSEPH S BYRD, University of South Carolina, Columbia

BRUCE W. CLEMENS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

FRANK P. CRIMI, Lockheed Environmental Systems, Saratoga, California
ROBERT A. FJELD, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
LINDA WENNERBERG, Consultant, Dorchester, Massachusetts

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONTAMINANT PLUMES

MELVIN W. CARTER, Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (emeritus)
PHILIP E. BEDIENT, Rice University, Houston, Texas

JOHN C. FOUNTAIN, State University of New York, Buffalo
VICTOR G. GULAS, Montgomery Watson, Boulder, Colorado

LYNNE M. PRESLO, Earth Tech, Berkeley, California

CURTIS C. TRAVIS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
WALTER J. WEBER, JR., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

SUBCOMMITTEE ON LANDFILLS

C. HERB WARD, Chair, Rice University, Houston, Texas

KENT D. BAUGH, OHM Remediation Services Corporation, Pleasanton, California
KIRK W. BROWN, Texas A&M University, College Station

RICHARD A. CONWAY, Union Carbide Corporation, South Charleston, West Virginia
WILLIAM P. DORNSIFE, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources,

Harrisburg

FREDERICK G. POHLAND, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

VERN C. ROGERS, Rogers & Associates Engineering Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah
LOUIS J. THIBODEAUX, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

SUBCOMMITTEE ON HIGH-LEVEL WASTE IN TANKS

B. JOHN GARRICK, Chair, PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, California

VICKI M. BIER, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ALLEN G. CROFF, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee MARTIN J. STEINDLER, Argonne National Laboratory, Downers Grove, Illinois

(retired)

CLAUDE G. SOMBRET, Consultant, Villeneuve Les Avignon, France
RAYMOND G. WYMER, Consultant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

SUBCOMMITTEE ON MIXED WASTES

PAUL DEJONGHE, Chair, Study Centre for Nuclear Research, Mol, Belgium ANN N. CLARKE, Eckenfelder, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee

GARY A. DAVIS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

JURGEN H. EXNER, JHE Technology Systems, Inc., Alamo, California

ROBERT D. WATERS, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Subcommittee Staff

KARYANIL T. THOMAS, Study Director
THOMAS E. KIESS, Program Officer
SUSAN B. MOCKLER, Research Associate
ROBIN L. ALLEN, Senior Project Assistant

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